WIRE — Andy Burnham officially became the United Kingdomâ s new Prime Minister on Monday, after a meeting with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace in London. He succeeded Keir Starmer as the seventh UK prime minister since 2016 and as leader of the Labour Party.

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